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Lipton Matthews engages Dan Wang's Breakneck thesis that China is an engineering state and America a lawyerly society — endorsing the critique that American proceduralism paralyzes infrastructure delivery, while defendin…

Steve Stockman argues the cheapest way to resolve the Iran regime threat is to airdrop handguns ("modern Peacemakers") to the Iranian populace and let them topple the mullahs from within, framing this as Trump's "Silent …

Roger Kimball celebrates James Hankins's Bradley Prize and uses the occasion to defend The Golden Thread project at Encounter Books as a counterrevolution against egalitarian, woke-inflected academia, recovering the West…

The pro-natalism debate misframes the binding constraint. Transfers and zoning address symptoms; the deeper deficit is the social-meaning collapse of family formation as a status-conferring life path, which no fiscal lev…

Pro-natalist policy debates converge too narrowly on monetary transfers (child tax credits, baby bonuses). The binding constraint is cultural — family formation depends on shared expectations of multigenerational continu…

The disagreement collapses on inspection of time horizon. Lips's GAO reform package operates on the 5-10 year audit-attention margin and shapes congressional decision-making at the bill-design stage. PAYGO restoration op…

The administrative-state critique has converged too narrowly on Chevron deference. The harder structural reform is procedural — requiring agencies to publish counterfactual cost-benefit analyses against legislatively-spe…

GAO reform misidentifies the fiscal lever. The deficit trajectory is driven by entitlement growth and congressional reconciliation laxness; restoring statutory PAYGO with teeth would do more than any audit reorganization…

GAO's return on investment has declined; five specific congressional directives — CBO oversight of GAO's ROI analysis, sunsetting low-impact reporting mandates, annual rescission proposals, state-federal fraud-prevention…

The counter-claim conflates two distinct levers: Loper Bright constrains agency rulemaking after the fact, while GAO reform disciplines Congress's own oversight processes upstream. These operate at different points in th…

Workforce credentialing addresses a symptom, not the cause. CHIPS implementation has exposed a deeper failure in supply chain coordination — substrate materials, photoresists, advanced packaging — that demands trilateral…

Two years into CHIPS Act implementation, the binding constraint on domestic semiconductor manufacturing is not capital subsidies but workforce capacity. Federal-level workforce credentialing through community colleges, m…

GAO reform misidentifies the binding constraint on the administrative state. Loper Bright has already shifted the deregulatory frontier to the courts; the marginal return is now in judicial selection and bench compositio…